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Patent Expert: Google Buying Motorola was a Bad Deal



MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA - A patent expert is of the belief that the Google-Motorola Mobility path-breaking deal worth US$12.5 billion was actually a waste for Google.

The sole reason behind such analysis is that Motorola sold its best patents a long time ago, and what Google has actually acquired is nothing worth an applause.

The founder and chairman of patent consulting firm M-Cam, David Martin, believes that the entire deal was a waste, and what Google actually acquired were "crap patents" as Motorola sold off the best patents, and its most valuable assets when Motorola split into two companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions.



Martin in a interview to Bloomberg said "it's an immense mistake, What they've bought is crap. Motorola had already sold off its good assets. Back in the early years, Motorola sold off some MPEG patents to GE. After that, they took a bunch of the Freescale patents and sold those off".

What translates the entire story is that in a case of fending off the likes of Apple and Microsoft and keeping its Android eco-system safe, Google has not been very successful, and it still is very likely to get sued in the near future by the big-wigs of the telecommunication industry.